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Dear Editor:
Since Jim Roberts' letters have devoted so much space recently to warning about the alleged danger America faces of being taken over by Aztlan, I decided to follow his latest letter's suggestion (08/05/08 ID) and I visited Aztlan's website. I scrolled down through a number of articles on the site, but I did not find anything remotely connected with the idea of "taking back" even a single inch of US territory to return to Mexico. What I did find, however, were a number of virulently anti-Semitic articles, including one that purported to be a quote from the French foreign minister alleging that all the world's troubles were due to Israel. I would have thought that Mexican immigrants in this country, especially those here illegally, might have had more immediate problems to worry about, such as being rounded up, jailed in inhuman conditions, summarily deported, having their families broken up, or being shot at the border. However, it seems that Aztlan's website is equally worried about whether the Palestinians are getting a fair shake or whether the "Zionist police" in Jerusalem are using too much force against ultra-orthodox, anti-Israel Jews. At this rate, it would be no surprise if Aztlan one day decided to run an article purporting to show that the notorious anti-Semitic "Protocols" forgery is really "genuine". If so, Aztlan would be in good company - together with Jim Roberts' many letters upholding the same myth.

Roger Algase, Esq.
New York, NY

Dear Editor:
Regarding John Kelly's letter (08/05/08 ID): Malkin and Edward are the first passports we should throw in the shredder and make them try to "prove" citizenship. These programs that create monumental government agencies at taxpayer expense are not "conservative", nor are they practical, but true to form they are mean spirited. I certainly do not wish to hand over the decision of if my children are bestowed with citizenship to a poorly trained civil servant. What if I needed to get my kids passport and take him on vacation with me before he was 8 years old? The State Department can't keep up with the current demand of a mere 3% of the American traveling public. The letter argues for creating an entire new way for the government to intervene in our lives. Or is this is another one of those programs "private industry" might handle better than government could? Don't tell me let me guess what company might get the contract... does it begin with an H? By the way I am writing a new book it should be out any now, I just have to think up a title, maybe..... "big brother = big government = big deficit, the tyranny of GOP lobbyists".

Frank Walters

Dear Editor:
Jim Roberts' latest letter (08/05/08 ID) about the fascist Aztlan movement is factually accurate, but needs some perspective. Simply because people claim to have many supporters and worm their way into teachers' lounges does not mean they are a real threat. The Aztlaners did have some minor success at influencing high school curricula and ensconcing themselves at some trendy liberal arts and social science faculties. That's about it. Given Hispanics' even lesser attachments to the various nations they or their recent ancestors happily abandoned, a serious secessionist threat by the Aztlaners is even less likely than a black nationalist takeover of anything of significance, East St. Louis, Oakland and Jersey City included. We should treat the Aztlaners as just another bad hang-over from the 1960s, seriously dated and rapidly dissipating even as it's views become better propagated in the Internet age. Stateside fundraising for even the IRA, the Tamil Tigers and Hizb'Allah remains tiny and is dwindling - and those guys actually commit the occasional vicious act and electoral victory in their homelands that tends to attract international support from revolutionaries with return air tickets. One will be happier and more correct ridiculing them instead of fearing them. And, since some writers seem to care and for the record, no, I am not a member of any protected group unless you want to consider some genes left behind by Medieval Asiatic rapists pillaging their way across Central Europe - no doubt merely "acting out" against "Western imperialist oppression", "racist immigration policies" or some such progressive grievance, but I am an immigrant married to a legal alien and I share the preference for a lot more legal immigration by PhD.s and engineers, spread more evenly across the globe than the de facto preference for Mexico.

Honza Prchal

Dear Editor:
Regarding Roger Algase, Esq.'s letter:
Enough already with ancient history recounts of previous waves of immigrants who happened to have arrived in a legal, orderly fashion. One should be proud of that fact, and should be indignantly offended by those who now feel it their "human right" to leave their countries, pay unknown amounts of money to people they know are not US government officials responsible for approving their entry, then get into the country and demand their "human and Constitutional rights" to even petition the US government for "redress of their grievances" of being arrested and removed from the country for being illegal aliens.
I am married to a citizen of Mexico whose siblings are now on a waiting list for legal permanent residency, and all of whom are consciously remaining in Mexico, studiously avoiding any temptation to risk entering the US illegally, or remaining beyond any lawful period of stay granted by competent US authorities at a Port-of-Entry, as they agreed to do upon being granted visas for "temporary stays in the US for business or pleasure".
I will always refer to myself as a true "law-abiding US citizen", lawful immigrant, US military veteran who simply expects that anyone wanted to participate in this grand experiment in this "Nation of Immigrants" do so in a lawful manner.
Those who feel the present immigration system is "broken" should petition, pressure, demand that Congress change the system before you encourage the unlawful behavior of those who decided that they could not wait for Congress to perform its Constitutional duty to "fix the broken system". Using the system is the way we distinguish the US from the various lawless, banana republics.

Jimmy Smith
Brunswick, GA

Dear Editor:
Regarding yesterdays Comment and Letters (8/5/08 ID): While ID's Comment may seem to be Double Jeopardy,
referencing a previous crime in relation to entry law is a separate
crime, thus the 5th Amd. preclusion of being tried twice for the same
offense would not apply. The problem with the R. Algase letter denial of
not being "anti-white" is that the letter is not defending non-whites
when making frequent, disparaging and direct comments against whites and
is not immune to the prejudice charge. The letters' continual, myopic
comments on restrictionists of "prejudice" are wrong as many other valid
motives exist to limit entry to which even the letter now pays "lip
service", the sincerity of which is in doubt as the letter states that
the "waves" will continue and can't be stopped. Unlike King Canute who
was demonstrating the superior forces of nature, restrictionists do not
believe entry can't be limited with a resolve of firm enforcement which
is not "persecution". It is clear that the F. Walters letter accepts
the orchestrated outcome of the Border Patrol agents appeal. But, it is not
"emotional manipulation" to be able to address the veracity of a
witness, but a right as is precluded jury nullification. A legal expert
who attended concluded: "It should shock every citizen to find that the
5th Circuit finds no fault with perjury, suborning perjury, denial of
the 6th amd. rights to confront an accuser, and the 6th amd. rights to a
public trial". The only "vigilante justice" here was by the judges and
the prosecution. King George commutes Scooter Libbey, but not Ramos and
Compean.

Jim Roberts

Dear Editor:
Regarding Semakweli's letter (08/-05/08 ID): The children of illegals are illegal because their parents are illegal.
Being born in the U.S. is inteneded for U.S. citizens children, because illegal
parents are not supposed to be in the U.S. This is a misconfiguration of
a constitution that says only legal immigrants, legal citizens have a right
to be in the U.S. One felony does not extend to make another legal.

David Utterback

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